the whole point of I, Robot was to show the flaws in the three laws and how they aren’t watertight.
take the story of the robot who declared hinself a prophet on the Mars station and locked up the humans. or the one about mind-reading robot that started lying because of Rule 1. both highlight how that particular permutation of rules doesn’t always do what it says on the wrapper.
im talking of the book of short stories, of course. not the travesty of a movie starring will smith.
The stories also showed that theaws were probably as good as could be done, since the exceptions were edge cases that required some creative interpretations of “protect” and “don’t harm”.
The stories where the laws were given exlusions so the robots could do things also reinforced the idea that the laws were pretty darn good even if they weren’t foolproof. I think there was one with mining robots that had some flexibility on protecting themselves because mining is dangerous.
the whole point of I, Robot was to show the flaws in the three laws and how they aren’t watertight.
take the story of the robot who declared hinself a prophet on the Mars station and locked up the humans. or the one about mind-reading robot that started lying because of Rule 1. both highlight how that particular permutation of rules doesn’t always do what it says on the wrapper.
im talking of the book of short stories, of course. not the travesty of a movie starring will smith.
The stories also showed that theaws were probably as good as could be done, since the exceptions were edge cases that required some creative interpretations of “protect” and “don’t harm”.
The stories where the laws were given exlusions so the robots could do things also reinforced the idea that the laws were pretty darn good even if they weren’t foolproof. I think there was one with mining robots that had some flexibility on protecting themselves because mining is dangerous.